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Trip (Matthew McConaughey) is a 35-year-old boat broker who happily resides in an assisted living facility where he is served fresh pancakes and bacon with warmed syrup and all of his clothes are c...
Less a movie than a mosaic, this remake of the 1980 classic with the Oscar-winning title anthem about the high school for the performing arts has been re-imagined for the hyper-linked and just plai...
If you believe the previews or have seen the poster of an aggressively extended and bejeweled ring finger, then you might presume that “The Family Stone” is going to be a light-hearted romp of ...
How fast? How furious? Well, this fourth in the series is so zippy it doesn't even have time for "the" or "and." And how necessary? Is there any more fastness or furiousness not fully covered b...
Terrence Howard's performance in "Fighting" is so bizarrely strange and awful that it occurred to me he might be hoping we didn't realize it was him. Howard plays Harvey, a street hustler who disc...
It’s like deja vu, says the main character, only of something I haven’t done yet.
Wow, get out of my head, Wendy! We are barely minutes into “Final Destination 3” and already we, t...
Director Sidney Lumet revisits the themes of two of his most memorable films in this movie, but with less success. Like
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Posted on Wednesday March 15, 2006
What can you do if you want to rob a bank and hotshot Harrison Ford has designed a foolproof security system? Well, firewalls may be unbreakable, but people are not. So, you tell him that if he d...

Ice Cube was once a member of the f...
Has this script been in a drawer somewhere since 1942?
It sure seems like it. It's "inspired" by the absorbing true story of Americans who enlisted with the French armed forces in World Wa...

An adventure-romance-comedy about...
The biggest acting achievement in this film is four Oscar winners valiantly managing to hide their embarrassment in appearing in sheer holiday dreck. Its leads are not as successful. Reese Wither...
This is not a who-dun-it. It's a will-they-be-able-to-prove-it. As in the old
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Posted on Friday April 13, 2007
This movie’s inability to live up to its potential is nearly as epic as its misleading title. In other hands, "Freedomland" might have played a jazz-like riff of personal loss and moving vignett...

In this impressionistic, ros...